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AVAILABLE COPY Sunday, August 7, 1988 The Arizona Republic D5 BASEBALL At Mason finds joy, first triumph in more than year Dramatic finish in nightcap gives Firebirds split On deck Firebirds (22-21) vs. Colorado Springs (16-25), affiliate of the Cleveland Indians. WHEN Tonight, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. All 7:05 starts. PITCHING PROBABLES Firebirds: Marty Bystrom (2-1), Lary Sorensen (2-2), Mike Krukow, Dave Dravecky.

Colorado Springs: Joe Skalski (7-10), Rick Rodriquez (7-3), Tony Ghelfl (3-4), Chris Codiroli (4-2). PROMOTIONS Tonight is photo night, all fans with cameras can take pictures of the Firebirds on the field from 6 to 7. Monday is family, $2 reserved, $1 general admission. Tuesday is 2-for-l night, coupons available at West LA. Wednesday is McDonald's night, free children's tickets available at Valley mounted their best threat after Mclcn-dcz's hit.

Harris walked Hayes and Jessie Rcid to load the bases and bring the tying run to the plate. Dut Harris struck out Williams. Harris yielded an unearned run in the first. Perezchica walked, went to third on an error and later scored on Hayes' fielder's choice. Shane Mack singled in the fourth, moved to third on a single by Sandy Alomar and scored on a fly by Randall Dyers.

Harris walked to lead off the fifth and went to third on Mike Drumlcy's double. Roberts singled both in and he scored on Mack's fly. Alomar made the score 5-1 in the sixth with his 16th homer. score 2-0 with an RDI single that scored Matt Williams. In the first game, Greg 'Harris (8-3) and Keith Comstock combined on a three-hit effort for Las Vegas.

Harris no-hit the Firebirds until Francisco Mclcndcz hit a broken-bat single with two out in the sixth. "lie threw me a fastball right over the plate," Mclcndcz said. It was a curious choice to give Mclcndcz, considering he is leading all of Triple-A in hitting "I'm sure (Harris) just wanted another out," Mclcndcz said. "He got better from the third inning on because he was getting his breaking ball over for strikes." Trailing, 5-1, the Firebirds The Firebirds answered in the seventh on Rusty Tillman's pinch-hit single. "That's the first time we've seen Harris this season," Kim said.

"Every time he's been scheduled to pitch against us, he's been hurt or something. He was tough tonight." Note The San Francisco Giants announced that Mike Krukow and Dave Dravecky have been sent to the Firebirds on 20-day rehabilitation programs. Krukow is expected to start Tuesday and Dravecky will start Wednesday. Giants vice president Dob Kennedy said both probably will throw about 60-70 pitches. then nervously watched as Las Vegas scored in the sixth off reliever Randy Dockus and had the bases loaded with one out.

But Stu Tate got Tom Drassil to hit into a double play. More dramatic was the game's ending. After Tate struck out the first two hitters in the seventh, Dip Roberts walked and went to second on a wild pitch. Jcrald Clark followed with a single and the score appeared to be tied as Roberts slid ahead of left-fielder Charlie Hayes' throw. But Roberts missed the plate and catcher Kirt Manwaring tagged him for the final out.

"What a way to get your first victory," Mason said. By Jeffrey Flanagan The Arizona Republic Want to know the definition of liappy? Try the Firebirds' Roger Mason, who gained his first victory in more than a year when the Firebirds held on a for a 2-1 triumph over the Las Vegas Stars on Saturday at Municipal Stadium. Las Vegas won the first game, 5-2. "I can't believe it," said Mason, grinning. "Pitching good is one thing, but getting that first victory is something else.

It seemed like forever since the last one." It was June 22 of last year. Mason, who has struggled to overcome off-season shoulder surgery, was 0-7 this year. Mason pitched five shutout innings, "Manwaring did a great job of LAS VEGAS -i Kinw opfm wfw srrvminAi air park OPEN Vi BLK S. OF PRICE CLUB It: 7:30 AM M-SAT. blocking the plate, said Firebirds manager Wendell Kim.

"(Roberts) had nowhere to go." Mason's single drove in Tony Perezchica, who led off the second with a double, for the game's first run. In the third, Perezchica made the 1-day up back, '24 not. 4 noons casino, RT airlare more daily lor $5 bottom CASINO CONNECTIONS 483-1529 Scottsdale Rd. PHOENIX 2428 N. Scottsdale Rd.

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They lost that scries, 3-2. They might have lost it even if they had played that extra game at home. But they would have liked to have fpund out. "Nobody really knows," said Jim Frey, then the Cubs' manager, now their general manager. "But, given the fact everything went the way it did, playing three home games would have been better than playing three road games.

I think anyone would like to play the last game of the playoffs in his own home park." The Cubs won't have that kind of problem anymore. But they probably never should have had it in the first place. TV could have bowed to the uniqueness of Wriglcy Field. It simply chose not to. It altered the playoffs then.

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